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Here are your DIYbio events for the week.  On Sunday, Los Angeles features Ilaria Mazzoleni and Lola Dompe giving talks and leading audience participation on their work on interrelationships between the natural and built environment,  biodesign, art, materials, and pigments, while Oakland continues its Open Insulin and coursework on protein purification.  On Monday Oakland and Sunnyvale continue their Real Vegan Cheese project. On Tuesday, Cambridge uses R code to show several packages for the analysis of RNA-seq data, comparing different tools, while Sunnyvale continues its work on a quantum salinity detector, and has an open house for its Plant Bio Research Group.  On Wednesday, Oakland continues its fun fermentation work and Open Insulin project, San Francisco has a discussion on the DIYbio movement with Mac Cowell, Sunnyvale continues its efforts on a fluorescence microscope, and Toronto has a discussion of hybrid art/science work, featuring Nicole Clouston and Jasmine Alkin.  On Thursday, Cambridge continues their biomakespace planning, Oakland continues its fungal cultivation, and Sunnyvale continues its bioprinter project.  On Friday, Sunnyvale has a discussion of climate change and biotechnology.  On Saturday, Amsterdam invites you to hack biotic gaming designs,  Brooklyn features a bioinformatics workshop guided by Elizabeth Hénaff where bacterial species are determined from metagenomic datasets from your favorite subway, Cambridge will have Zeeshan Ali and Richard Hopper discuss chemical sensing, and later you can help  build an open source desktop spectrometer.  Also on Saturday, Minneapolis will be participating in a hackathon with their algae bloom monitoring droid while San Diego helps put on a crime scene science workshop.

Los Angeles, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA

Monday, May 2
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Tuesday, May 3
Cambridge, MA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Wednesday, May 4
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Toronto, ON, CAN

Thursday, May 5
Cambridge, GBR
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Friday, May 6
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Saturday, May 7
Amsterdam, NTL
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, GBR
Minneapolis, MN, USA
San Diego, CA, USA

Events coming up

Sunday, May 8
Austin, TX, USA

Tuesday, May 10
Denver, CO, USA

Wednesday, May 11
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Thursday, May 12
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Saturday, May 14
Seattle, WA, USA

To see when the next event is in your area, check the full list of usual suspects. Don’t see one near you? Why not have your own and get it posted here? Tell us about it by emailing events@diybio.org. It would be great to post some photos of your event somewhere. We’d love to see them. We do have some guidelines for what is posted, and are not capturing every event within the community.

Here are your DIYbio events for the week.  On Sunday, Austin does some hands-on craft brewing with Jacob Ashton, Durham has a show and tell, prepping for a local Sci-Tech Expo .  Oakland carries on their Biohack Academy, Open Insulin project, and some in-depth work on protein expression, and Washington, DC has a huge Science Technology, Enigineering and Math (STEM) event with several biotech participants.  On Monday, Brooklyn starts their 3-day biohacker bootcamp,  Cambridge has a two talks, one entitled “Minimal Requirements for Morphogenisis – where does biology come inn?” by Stoyan Smoukov, and the other entitled “A touch screen for cells: Exploring the uses of piezoelectric materials in synthetic biology” by Michael Smith, London has a panel discussion and talks by artists and scientists on the applications of organizational stuctures of superorganisms, including Dr. Libby Heaney, Dr Mark Isalan, Melissa Sterry, Dr Tom Ellis, and Heather Barnett.  Also on Monday, Oakland continues its work on Real Vegan Cheese, and Sunnyvale continues its work on a quantum salinity detector using a surface plasmon resonance device.  On Tuesday, Amsterdam works on several interesting projects,  and Toronto is showing off their new lab.  On Wednesday, Albany has a talk on vector-borne diseases with a focus on the Zika virus, by Dr Laura Kramer, Brooklyn has a workshop on CRISPR/Cas9, Oakland continues their fun fermentations and Open Insulin project, San Diego continues their work which includes open source transformations of algae and bacteria, Seattle has a discussion of the meaning of JCVI-syn3.0, the recently announced living cell made from scratch with the smallest possible genome, and Sunnyvale continues its work on a fluorescence microscope.  On Thursday, Cambridge continues its discussions of establishing a biomakespace, Kalispell has a bioinformatics tools demo, Oakland continues work on fungal cultivation and conducts a biohacking bootcamp, San Diego has a discussion of the value of basic biological research, where Dr. Aaron Groen uses his research into the basic mechanisms of cytokinesis as an example, and Sunnyvale continues their bioprinter work.  On Friday, Buenos Aires has a “mingling session” for bioart, and some experimentation with microbial fuel cells, Cambridge has a talk on single-cell RNA sequencing with Dr Florian Buettner and North York has a talk on Precision Medicine by Dr. Ruslan Dorfman.  On Saturday, Austin has a workshop and discussion of vaping nootropics, and Seattle has a fun course by Regina Wu, where a zombie apocalypse is imagined as introduction to viruses and  antibodies.

Sunday, April 17
Austin, TX, USA
Durham, NC, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Washington, DC, USA

Monday, April 18
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cambridge, GBR
London, GBR
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Tuesday, April 19
Amsterdam, NLD
Toronto, ON, CAN

Wednesday, April 20
Albany, NY, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
San Diego, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Thursday, April 21
Cambridge, GBR
Kalispell, MT, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
San Diego, CA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Friday, April 22
Buenos Aires, ARG
Cambridge, GBR
North York, ON, CAN

Saturday, April 23
Austin, TX, USA
Seattle, WA, USA

Other events coming up

Monday-Tuesday April 25-26
Boston, MA, USA

Wednesday, May 4
San Francisco, CA, USA

To see when the next event is in your area, check the full list of usual suspects. Don’t see one near you? Why not have your own and get it posted here? Tell us about it by emailing events@diybio.org. It would be great to post some photos of your event somewhere. We’d love to see them. We do have some guidelines for what is posted, and are not capturing every event within the community.

Here are your DIYbio events for the week. On Monday, Baltimore has Claire Fraser speaking on the human gut microbiome in collaborations with the  “culture as medium” series.  On Tuesday, Amsterdam does its projects, Cambridge is helping with a synthetic biology workshop in London, San Diego will be having a lecture called “Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease Using Human Stem Cells” by Dr Jessica Young.  On Wednesday London begins a big 3-day conference, Oakland continues work on their Open Insulin and fermentation projects,  Sunnyvale continues to work on its fluorescence microscope, and Vancouver is going to a panel discussion of the microbiome, moderated by Linda Aylesworth, with Bill Mohn, Brett Finlay, and Deborah Money, MD. On Thursday, London continues the conference, and Somerville attends a microbiome event. On Friday, Buenos Aires has an bioart event of mingling and experimentation with microbial fuel cells, London continues the conference, Sunnyvale has a hands on workshop on engineering bacteria with CRISPR/Cas9, and Seattle is attending a comicon, where founder Bergen McMurray will participate in a discussion about the mutually influential relationship between technology and science fiction.   On Saturday, Bethesda is checking out a space, Brooklyn carries on a intensive 4-session class on CRISPR/Cas9, Buenos Aires is having a meeting on bio-hacking, Cambridge has a conference (bundled ticket price gives a break on the London conference), Oakland has a hands-on workshop on engineering bacteria with CRISPR/Cas9,  Stockholm has a biomakers conference, and Sunnyvale has an event on DNA bar-coding.

Monday, April 4
Baltimore, MD, USA

Tuesday, April 5
Amsterdam, NLD
Cambridge, GBR
London, GBR
San Diego, CA, USA

Wednesday, April 6
London, GBR
Oakland, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Vancouver, BC, CAN

Thursday, April 7
London, GBR
Somerville, MA, USA

Friday, April 8
Buenos Aires, ARG
London, GBR
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA

Saturday, April 9
Bethesda, MD, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Buenos Aires, ARG
Cambridge, GBR
Oakland, CA, USA
Stockholm, SWE
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Events coming up

Monday, April 11
Toronto, ON, USA

Thursday, April 14
Ljubljana, SVN

Friday, April 15
Baltimore, MD, USA

Saturday, April 16
Austin, TX, USA

Saturday, April 30
Toronto, ON, CAN

Wednesday, May 18
Austin, TX, USA

Thursday, May 19
Amsterdam, NLD

Friday – Sunday, June 24-26
Amsterdam, NLD (Register now)

To see when the next event is in your area, check the full list of usual suspects. Don’t see one near you? Why not have your own and get it posted here? Tell us about it by emailing events@diybio.org. It would be great to post some photos of your event somewhere. We’d love to see them. We do have some guidelines for what is posted, and are not capturing every event within the community.